24 Jun
I don’t feel like writing about it. Its big. It celebrates the Korean harvest. We ate a ton of delicious street food (and saw some really nasty stuff.) Beautiful. We had a ton of fun.
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16 Apr
Busride to …where?
A few weeks ago I got on a bus from downtown with the idea that ‘all buses go to my house.’ Life Lesson #1: Not all buses go to Melissa’s house.
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9 Apr
We taught the kids at school about easter. They are clueless to the holiday, most of the kids just liked dying eggs and hunting for them. Amy, Liz, and I dressed up like bunnies and hid eggs in cute little paper baskets we made in school (thanks to Amy’s creativity.)
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22 Mar
Amy and I wandered into a small restaurant after an after-hours attempt at finding the lamp shop. The woman who works in the kitchen invited us in after seeing us admiring the beautiful sea snakes slithering around in the tank outside the restaurant. We were wondering what the spiderweb-like membranes that floated in the tank were, to which a kind Korean couple explained in broken english it is their “shed skin.”
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11 Mar
Amy, Liz and I adventured downtown to shop and mail some letters at the post office. We took the bus, which only cost 900 won, the equivalent of less than 90 cents.
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28 Feb
Let me start by saying, I LOVE THIS PLACE. Everyone I’ve met is overly helpful and nice. My school is tiny and close-knit. There are three teachers TOTAL (including me), a director, and an office manager. The kids are like anime cartoons… pigtails, overexaggerated facial expressions, and weird laughs. If they are bad I am allowed to make them stand against the wall and hold a chair over their head. !!! I’m excited for that.
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